Peak Farmland

…eds. Geoffrey McNicoll, John Bongaarts, and Ethel P. Churchill, supplement to Population and Development Review, vol. 38. New York: Population Council, 2013. We also post Jesse’s short lecture, Peak Farmland,…

National Cockroach Project

The DNAHouse project alerted us to the value of barcoding a New York City cockroach…and now Mark Stoeckle announces the initiation of the National Cockroach Project. Jeanne Garbarino posts a…

UN CoML Talk

On 4 June Jesse addressed a session of the UN Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea in New York City about the Census of Marine Life….

29 June 2004

Sir John Browne, Chairman and CEO of BP, spoke on the record at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Thursday 24 June about global warming “Beyond Kyoto.”…

Mao and Deforestation

From the 10 February 2011 New York Review of Books, p. 27, essay by Roderick MacFarquhar on Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank…